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exarch
1[ ek-sahrk ]
noun
- Eastern Church.
- a patriarch's deputy.
- a title originally applied to a patriarch but later applied only to a bishop ranking below a patriarch and above a metropolitan.
- the ruler of a province in the Byzantine Empire.
exarch
2[ ek-sahrk ]
adjective
, Botany.
- (of a primary xylem or root) developing from the center; having the youngest cells closest to the core.
exarch
1/ ˈɛksɑːk /
noun
- the head of certain autonomous Orthodox Christian Churches, such as that of Bulgaria and Cyprus
- any of certain Eastern Orthodox bishops, lower in rank than a patriarch but higher than a metropolitan
- the governor of a province in the Byzantine Empire
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Derived Forms
- exˈarchal, adjective
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Other Words From
- ex·archal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of exarch1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of exarch1
C16: from Late Latin exarchus overseer, from Greek exarkhos, from exarkhein to take the lead, from arkhein to rule
Origin of exarch2
C19: from ex- 1(outside) + Greek arkhē beginning, origin
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Example Sentences
The officials of the empire, a distant exarch at Ravenna, a feeble prtor at Rome, had no power either to protect or to rescue.
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A fleet, fitted out by him in support of the exarch, was lost in a storm.
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They were ignorant of their new exarch; and Longinus was himself ignorant of the state of the army and the province.
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Many of the recently converted uniates, on the other hand, offered their allegiance to the exarch.
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Caesarea was an important diocese, and its bishop was, ex officio, exarch of the great diocese of Pontus.
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